Joseph Bessler's guest appearances

Joseph Bessler

Freedom Loves Company

Barack Obama

Bernie Taylor

Sam Jones

Marianne Williamson

Eve Ensler

Mister Rogers

James Howard Kunstler

Barbara Brown Taylor

Jonathan Haidt

Mark Lewis

Johann Hari

Lawrence Krauss

Nick Hernandez

John Loftus

Mark Coleman

OwlTail

I continue my conversation with Joseph Bessler, author of A Scandalous Jesus:  How Three Historic Quests Changed Theology for the Better.  This week we explore the "renewed quest" led by Robert Funk and the Jesus Seminar.  We explore the reasons for this quest and the forces that drove it.

Joseph Bessler, A Scandalous Jesus, Part 2

This week we get behind the question of the historical Jesus and ask what is historic about these quests for the Jesus of history?  What was and is at stake?  Joseph Bessler is a theology professor at Phillips Theological Seminary in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  He just published A Scandalous Jesus:  How Three Historic Quests Changed Theology for the Better.   He says that historic questions can be the most scandalous as they challenge assumptions governing societies.

Joseph Bessler, A Scandalous Jesus (Part 1)